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In the First Three Minutes Weinberg wrote:
How would that imbalance actually manifest itself in the real world? Does that mean that if for every 10^36 protons the sun had 10^36 + 1 electrons and if the Earth for every 10^36 electrons had 10^36 + 1 protons, then that would knock the Earth out of orbit? At first glance it seems ridiculous but considering the fact that the Earth has 10^50 protons that means that the Earth would have, I think, 10^14 extra protons than electrons, but even 10^14 electrons is hardly a lot considering that a mole is 10^23. My math must be off somehow.If the Earth and the sun had an excess of positive over negative charges (or vice versa) of only one part in (10^36), the electrical repulsion between them would be greater than their gravitational attraction.